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每天英语美文欣赏
在非英语专业学生中开设英语美文赏析,可以培养学生欣赏、理解文学原著的能力,促进学生英语语言水平的提高,激发学
生对语言文学的兴趣。下面是带来 的每天经典英语美文欣赏，欢
迎阅读!
每天经典英语美文欣赏篇一
How to Give Your Money Away
By Dr. Samuel Best
Many years ago I met a man whose unique psychology helped
me to shed a life of struggle and uneasiness for great happiness, for
peace of mind, and for a measure of success I otherwise would not
have attained.
His name was George Robert White, a man who was orphaned
and impoverished at a tender age. Yet, a man whose God-given
beliefs made him both a material and a spiritual millionaire at thirty.
My path to success, and to what I had considered its natural
result- happiness-was the ordinary road over which most American
businessmen travel, namely, endless hours of hard work, social
contacts, wise investments, headaches and heartaches.
To be sure, in a materialistic sense, I had traveled a long way
from my father s farm in Nova Scotia. I had become an executive in
a multi-million dollar drug firm. But where was the resulting
happiness that my material gain was supposed to have afforded me?
In my private moments of mental inventory, I discovered that I
had no more peace of mind, nor was I less afraid of the problems of
life and death, than many years before, when I planned my road to
happiness and success by the flickering lamp in my father s tiny
farmhouse. The reason was, I had neglected spiritual values in my
anxiety for material gain.
It took the kindly advice of George Robert White, to open the
pathway for me to happiness and freedom of mind. The important
lesson Mr. White taught me is this: If we are to be happy, if we are to
be successful in every aspect of the word, if we are to live truly full
lives, we must share ourselves, as well as our material gain, with our
fellow men.
As a young man, Mr. White took over the leadership of a
small soap- manufacturing plant in Boston, and throughout his career
he gave away to charity a large part of his net profits.
Yet, despite his unusual business practices, Mr. White built
that tiny concern into the world-famous Cuticura Corporation, and
became the multi-million- dollar manufacturer of Cuticura Soap,
Ointment and Shampoo.
I shall never forget Mr. White s words: Personal success,
business success, built upon materialism alone, are empty shells
concealing disappointment, saddened lives, which he epitomized by
saying: Cast your bread upon the waters and it will come back in
abundance.
Since Mr. White s death, I have endeavored, as his successor,
to adhere to his code of ethics. Two dollars out of every three dollars
profit earned by our corporation is shared with others in helping to
make our nation a better place in which to live.
We, in our corporation, believe that it is not sufficient only to
manufacture as fine a product as is possible-millions of dollars over
the years are being shared by our corporation for the advancement of
medicine and science, for chemical research, for art and for beauty.
In my personal life I have adopted Mr. White s beliefs, and, in
doing so, I have become much better equipped to serve humanity.
My reward, my blessings, have come to me in the form of
personal satisfaction and peace of mind that had been substantially
foreign to me.
Yes, I believe that spirituality is the needed seasoning to
America s materialism. But it must be that kind of spirituality that
takes the form of help and service toward our fellow men.
每天经典英语美文欣赏篇二
About Secrets and Falling Tiles
By Carroll Binder
We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, Julius Caesar reminds
us in Thornton Wilder s Ides of March. None of us knows at what
hour something we may love may suffer some terrible blow by a
force we can neither anticipate nor control.
Fifty-five years of living, much of the time in trouble centers
of a highly troubled era, have not taught me how to avoid being hit
by falling tiles. I have sustained some very severe blows. My mother
died when I was three years old. My first-born son, a gifted and
idealistic youth, was killed in the war. While I was still cherishing
the hope that he might be alive, circumstances beyond my control
made it impossible for me to continue work into which I had poured
my heart s blood for twenty years.
I speak of such things here in the hope of helping others to
believe with me that there are resources within one s grasp which
enable one to sustain such blows without being crushed or
embittered by them.
I believe the best hope of standing up to falling tiles is through
developing a sustaining philosophy and state of mind all through life.
I have seen all sorts of people sustain all sorts of blows in all sorts of
circumstances by all sorts of faiths, so I believe anyone can find a
faith that will serve his needs if he persists in the quest.
One of the best ways I know of fortifying oneself to withstand
the vicissitudes of this insecure and unpredictable era is to school
oneself to require relatively little in the way of material possessions,
physical satisfactions, or the praise of others. The less one requires
of such things the better situated one is to stand up to changes of
fortune.
I am singularly rich in friendships. Friends of all ages have
contributed enormously to my happiness and helped me greatly in
times of need. I learned one of the great secrets of friendship early in
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